Insulin Nation

JANUARY 23, 2015

The company’s new President and CEO Kevin Sayer shared that Dexcom’s patient base grew by more than 50% in both the U.S. and in international territories, according to a Fierce Medical Devices report. Medtronic and Covidien merger. We’ll soon whether a bigger Medtronic will mean better diabetes care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

At the same time, a vulnerable older adult population lacks adequate care in many parts of the country, sometimes due to wage issues, but more often due to the overall fierce competition for workers across industries. And family members could thus remain in jobs that they would otherwise abandon to provide care.

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Connected Care Remote care 69

Insulin Nation

JULY 29, 2014

The combo drug would combine Novo Nordisk’s long-acting insulin and its insulin-promoting GLP-1 drug into a new product that would be called Xultophy, according to Fierce Biotech. The drug has been used for over 50 years to prevent gout flare-up, so taking the drug should pose little health risk. Stressed Out Cells. Social Creatures.

BioTech 67

BioTech Health Data 67

Xealth

DECEMBER 16, 2022

With quicker time to deployment and a lower volume of project hours, our clients can see over 50% reduction in IS/IT costs. #2: I joked on stage, can you imagine a world where adding a drug to your Rx formulary was gated by IT instead of efficacy? Because that’s the world we live in when it comes to digital health solutions.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 6, 2016

Those hopes were echoed by a passionate Twitter base of users and Mannkind investors, who talked up Afrezza’s possibilities online and fiercely defended the product. With the news, the price for Mannkind stock plummeted, losing nearly 50% of its value on January 5th alone. But what doesn’t have to change is the experience of users.

Pharmaceuticals 40

Pharmaceuticals 40

Insulin Nation

APRIL 10, 2015

In a recent earnings call, Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak said that Medtronic’s catheter branch has 50 long-term contracts with hospital systems, representing some $1 billion in revenue, according to a Fierce Medical Devices report.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 6, 2016

Those hopes were echoed by a passionate Twitter base of users and Mannkind investors, who talked up Afrezza’s possibilities online and fiercely defended the product. With the news, the price for Mannkind stock plummeted, losing nearly 50% of its value on January 5th alone. But what doesn’t have to change is the experience of users.

Pharmaceuticals 40

Pharmaceuticals 40

Insulin Nation

JANUARY 6, 2016

Those hopes were echoed by a passionate Twitter base of users and Mannkind investors, who talked up Afrezza’s possibilities online and fiercely defended the product. With the news, the price for Mannkind stock plummeted, losing nearly 50% of its value on January 5th alone. But what doesn’t have to change is the experience of users.

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In Hand Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

These days, competition is fierce. In general, existing customers are 50 percent more likely to try new products and spend 31 percent more when compared to new customers. PT clinics that recognize this and see the opportunities in this highly competitive market will have the edge, but it requires some serious re-thinking.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 11, 2018

At the end of the day, that has enormous implications for both public health and healthcare costs, particularly as you consider that 40 or 50 million surgical procedures get done in the US alone every year. There’s a very deep and complex body of research that aims to understand what drives observed variation in surgeon outcomes.

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ACA Times

JULY 24, 2019

This is similar to what Fierce Healthcare reported in October 2018: “Officials estimate 10 million people would purchase insurance through HRAs, including 1 million people that were not previously insured. An element of the ACA that has continued to avoid the political spotlight is the ACA’s Employer Mandate.

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